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Hi,
in 2015 we will focus on our creative work, results yet to be announced ;-)

Nevertheless we will play some gigs, for the first time in Spain, Australia and Belarus. And some german gigs as well!

See you,
VAN CANTO

2014-09-09Voicefest 2014

After our gig at the Wacken Open Air with a full choir, we decided to do it again!We start our „Voicefest“ and are going to play 3 german shows with full choir support!

We will show up on December 12th in Hamburg, December 13th in Bochum and December 14th in Frankfurt. Special Guest are In Legend (with new songs), and Stimmgewalt from Berlin. We hope to meet you there to sing with us and our choir!

Wacken, thank you for a great night! Thanks to all people in front of the stage, our crew and all at Wacken. And of course thanks to our special guests: Tarja Turunen, Chris Boltendahl, André Matos, Victor Smolski, Jörg Michael and Stimmgewalt.

Thanks to Maria, Birke and Jörg from Twisted Talent, all local promoters and our Street Team for their support.

Thanks to Winterstorm and all special guests for their great music.

See some stage fotos here, the one in the middle is from our last show in Dortmund (Thanks to Saskia for the great photo).

We will be back and hope to meet you all again.

Love and Rakkatakka,
Van Canto

2014-03-23Tour of the Brave - Update

Our tour runs great, we are happy about full and sold out venues, and the greatest fans on earth. See an example from Aschaffenburg.

For all visitors of the Hamburg concert: Please send your name to vancanto [at] vancanto [punkt] de and we will send you the promised download link after the tour. Thank you!

2014-03-04Tour of the Brave

We had a great start of our tour in Russia, followed by shows in France, Belgium and Germany.
Now we’re heading off to Milan, Munich, Prague and Ludwigsburg. Hope to meet you there! Rakkatakka!

2014-02-08DAWN OF THE BRAVE - Editions

Dawn of the Brave is released!

We have a regular version of the CD, containing 13 tracks, look at Amazon.

Then there is a limited edition with bonus tracks: Orchestral versions of Take to the Sky, If I Die In Battle und My Voice, a remix of Neuer Wind, an accoustic version of Lost Forever and a great chor version of Last Night of the Kings. You can get it at EMP together with a VC flag.

And there is a very special Earbook-Edition, a 30x30 cm book with Bonus-CD and a DVD of our Wacken Gig 2011, exclusively at Napalm Records.

Sly already got his earbook copy and introduces it in the first volume of his new video news feed „SteelBreakingNews“

2014-02-07DAWN OF THE BRAVE

Today, our fifth album „DAWN OF THE BRAVE“ is released. Enjoy!

Pär Sundström (Sabaton):
„I love how Van Canto prooves that its the songs and not the instruments that makes a good heavy metal song. Unique idea and presented by great musicians“

Our fanclub rakka-takka.de had a great idea: VAN CANTIANS FOR VAN CANTIANS. The main goal is to help foreign Van Canto fans (from countries where we do not play on tour) visiting a Van Canto show in Germany.

You can win shirts, patches, signed CDs, drum heads of the Dawn of the Brave production, much more, and the original 3x2 m backdrop of the Tribe of Force Tour

All money from the lottery will be used to raise a fund to pay flights and tickets for foreign Van Cantians for the show in Cologne, April 5th 2014.

If you want to be at the cologne show, record a short videoclip explaining why you should be among the chosen ones, upload it on youtube until February 28th, and send the videolink to info[at]rakka-takka.de

Please note that you have to live at least 300km away from the nearest venue of the tour of the brave.

On March 1st, the fanclub members and the band will announce the winners.

Allright! Please be part of the lottery to help raising the fund – or – apply for one of the tickets via video. Thank you and good luck!